If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Re: The Official OSU vs. USC thread...

Thanx AS, they look good!.... But I thought the wager with Shawn was until the persons' team wins thier next game?.....

Gotta get some sleep now but will be back later, man those OSU wannabes were screaming up and down the hallway all afternoon, so I didn't get too much rest before working last night.... But that's alright... I set the alarm clock for 2am before checking out... The walls at the Wilshire are paper thin, so that poor sap that was chanting O-H-I-O all day will get a wake-up in the middle of the night for an hour or until the blaring radio shuts off....

Re: The Official OSU vs. USC thread...

Wow. Just wow. It will take more than Boom. I have a feeling that if tOSU wins this game it will be because lights out play from our D and surprise play by Pryor.

In all honesty, I think Pryor will get more PT tonight simply because he is the best hope of a "big play"... But it will be all for naught.

...Mark my words... USC will start slow thru the first half. That is what they have done for the last three years... But in the second half, they will squash the 'nuts, put the children to bed, and go lookin' for dinner!

Re: The Official OSU vs. USC thread...

...First, a funny article for all you mis-guided 'Nut fans that you should enjoy........
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
September 13, 2008Sweater vests vs. flip-flops
OSU-USC a matchup of both lifestyle, football
By Paul Daugherty
[email="pdaugherty@enquirer.com"]pdaugherty@enquirer.com[/email]

The matchup between the Buckeyes and the Trojans tonight promises to be drenched in bad blood and bad vibes, grass stains and blown-out flip-flops. Venom will flow all over BCS-ville.

The game will be good, too.

No, check that. It'll be, like, awesome, dude.

The best rivalries have less to do with the athletic competitions and more to do with the identity clashes they provoke. Michigan: Snooty, self-righteous School Up North. Ohio State: Gallant defender of all that is pure. Like that.

So to some of us, tonight's epic showdown between No. 5 Ohio State and No. 1 Southern Cal isn't about football. It's about all that's good and all that's not. It's simple:

I ran this by Tracy Jones, my laid-back, native SoCal (or is it Cali?) friend who calls me Bitterman and sees in me everything not to like about O-Hi-O. He suggests I loosen my sweater vest and smell the organic guava juice.

Jones grew up in the L.A. suburb of Hawthorne, best known for producing Mike Love, Al Jardine and the Wilson brothers, better known as the Beach Boys. Jones says his dad coached head Beach Boy Brian Wilson in baseball and his aunt dated Brian Wilson.

That figures. I love Brian Wilson. But he's a Froot Loop. Empty B. Wilson's head onto the floor, the contents would come to rest in the shape of the Golden State.

Me: "If you love Cali so much, dude, why do you live here?"

Jones: "People here are better. I don't like people who love themselves."

Oh.

I'd love to see Bengals quarterback and major dude USC alum Carson Palmer in a Jim Tressel-model scarlet-and-gray XXL sweater vest at his weekly press picnic Wednesday. I have my doubts.

USC is better. The Trojans go about 12-deep at every position. They have future NFL draftees backing up the backups. Chris Wells would start at SC. (And it is Chris Wells. Not Beanie. If you want to be Beanie, go to Cali. This is Ohio, son.) But at Southern Cal, Wells' OSU backup would be handing out water bottles. We exaggerate, a little. But you get the point.

Of course, somewhere down the road, the Trojans will lose to some Stanford or another, because they are soft and because no coach who calls his players "dude" deserves to go anywhere except 1967. But that's unlikely to happen tonight.

That's OK. We in Ohio (so square even the state nearly has four equal sides) will reign as superior moral beings who spend Saturday afternoons in one church and Sundays in another.

Arise, Sweater Vest Nation, for all that is good in the world. And tuck in that shirt tail.

-----------------------------------------------------

Now.... Some meat for the game tonight.................

WHY THE TROJANS WILL WIN

SUPERIOR SPEED
The Trojans' athleticism again will raise questions of Ohio State's team speed. The Big Ten has been stigmatized as a conference full of plodding athletes. "We're fast, too," Ohio State defensive lineman Lawrence Wilson said. "We're not too concerned about their speed." But if the Bucks are run off the field again, their critics will re-emerge at record speed.

RUSH DEFENSE TOPS
The Trojans have finished in the top 10 in five of the last six seasons in stopping the run. And if the Buckeyes can't run the ball, USC will sack the immobile Todd Boeckman, who was sacked five times and threw two interceptions against LSU in the BCS title game. Plus, according to ESPN analyst and former Buckeyes quarterback Kirk Herbstreit, the OSU veteran offensive line has played "soft" in the first two games against outmanned Youngstown State and Ohio.

STREAKING
USC is riding a string of six straight top-4 finishes in the Associated Press Top 25, six straight Bowl Championship Series bowls, six straight Pac-10 championships and six straight 11-win seasons. Oh, and the Trojans are 66-5-2 in games when ranked No. 1.

DYNAMIC QB-COACH DUO
Mark Sanchez is regarded by many as the most physically gifted of all Pete Carroll's quarterbacks at USC, and that's saying plenty. He has it all: big arm, accuracy, mobility. The Trojans have had two weeks to prepare for this "Game of the Century" at the L.A. Coliseum, where they rarely lose - unless it's a fluke like last year to Stanford.

NO BEANIE
Ohio State running back Chris "Beanie" Wells is a game-changer. He can break away for a touchdown on every touch. Without him, the Trojans defense can play even more aggressive against redshirt freshman tailback Dan Herron and company.

Re: The Official OSU vs. USC thread...

Originally Posted by Iron Shiek

[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3584806[/url]

Shawn, what kind of treatment is he getting on his foot 15 times a day?! Is that exaggerated or for real?

I have no idea...because I don't even know the diagnosis. It's certainly not invasive like cortisone...they might have tried that once before and if he can play one before the game. I would imagine it revolves around physical therapy and some "tub therapy". That would be my best guess.